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Home Funeral and Green Burial Price List for Funeral Directors

by Lee Webster
Services
Home funeral families may be interested in purchasing one or more of the following while opting out of body care, embalming, viewings, funeral or memorial services, or other on-site services that would warrant charging a non-declinable fee. The following are suggested goods and services that home funeral and green burial families may wish to purchase from a funeral director. 
 
Transfer/Transportation base fees (plus mileage outside of radius)
$                                     To home from hospital, nursing facility, other
$                                     To church from home
$                                     To a cemetery or crematory
$                                     Other
 
Paperwork
$                                     Filing of death certificate/obtaining the transit permit
$                                     Filing for Social Security benefits
$                                     Filing for Veteran’s benefits
$                                     Submitting an obituary (in addition to newspaper or online fees)
$                                     Other
 
Additional Services
$                                    Joint consultation with funeral director and home funeral guide
$                                    Cremation plus ME fees with body accepted from the family 
$                                    Refrigeration with no other services required
$                                    Use of prep room by family-led body care teams
$                                    Use of church cart
$                                    Use of burial cart to transport body to green burial space
$                                    Other
 
 
Merchandise
Home funeral families often want or need to purchase the container or casket ahead of time.
$                                    Alternate container
$                                     Body pouch
$                                     Caskets (range)
$                                     Casket rental
$                                     Vault
$                                     Urns
$                                   ​  Shroud
$                                   ​  Shrouding board
$                                   ​  Lowering straps
$                                   ​  Grave lining flowers/organic material
$                                   ​  Other                                                    
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Copyright © 2015 by Lee Webster, Excerpt from Essentials for Practicing Home Funeral Guides · All Rights Reserved · www.nhfuneral.org
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  • Welcome
  • About
    • Our Mission
    • History
    • Boards of Directors >
      • Board Application
    • Leadership Award
    • Partner Organizations
  • Find Providers
    • Provider Maps
    • Cemeteries by State/Province
    • Products Providers
    • Funeral Homes by State/Province A—N
    • Funeral Homes by State/Province O—Z
  • Certification
    • Green Burial Characteristics
    • Why Certification Matters
    • Our Standards
    • Become Certified
    • Provider Pricing
    • Compliance Specialists
  • Education
    • Green Burial and Covid-19
    • So You Want to Start a Green Cemetery >
      • Funding
    • Find a Speaker
    • Media/Statistics
    • Publications
    • Books, Blogs, Articles, Videos >
      • Articles Archive
    • Green Burial Glossary
    • Educational Tools
    • Green Burial Stories
    • Academic Research
    • GBC Survey Results
    • Green Funerals Course
    • Other Disposition Options
    • FAQs >
      • FAQs: Green Burial Defined
      • Conservation Burial FAQs
      • Hybrid Cemetery FAQs
    • Blog
  • Events
    • GBC Online Conference 2020 >
      • Sponsors
      • Vendors
    • Peer to Peer Forums >
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